{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/damages-personal-injury-order-northern-ireland-2021/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/damages-personal-injury-order-northern-ireland-2021/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2021/115",
  "legislation_title": "The Damages (Personal Injury) Order (Northern Ireland) 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/damages-personal-injury-order-northern-ireland-2021",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Damages\nMade 29th April 2021\nComing into operation 31st May 2021\nThe Department of Justice in exercise of the powers conferred by section 1(1) of the Damages Act 1996, having consulted the Government Actuary and the Department of Finance in accordance with section 1(4) of that Act, makes the following Order.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1996 c. 48. Section 1(6) was inserted by Article 15(5) of, and paragraph 55 of Schedule 18 to the Northern Ireland Act 1998 (Devolution of Policing and Justice Functions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010 No. 976). In their application to Northern Ireland, subsections (1) and (4) of section 1 are modified by subsection (6)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Formerly the Department of Finance and Personnel, see the Departments Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (2016 c. 5 (N.I.)), section 1(4) and Schedule 1."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2021/115/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:39:16.924563+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}